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WAR IN 



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THE DOWNFALL OF THE 
KAISER AND THE END 
OF THE DISPENSATION 





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The World War in Prophecy 

The Downfall of the Kaiser 

and 

The End of the Dispensation 



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BY 



Rev. H. C. MORRISON, D. D. 

Author of "World Tour of Evangelism," "Life Sketches and 
Sermons," 'The Second Coming," "Romanism and 
Ruin." "The Two Lawyers," "Thoughts for the 
Thoughtful." "The Confessions of a 
Backslider," "Prophecies Ful- 
filled and Fulfilling," Etc. 



FIRST EDITION 



PENTECOSTAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 
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Copyright, 1917, by 
Pentecostal Publishing Company. 



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DEDICATION. 

This book is affectionately dedicated to 
Mrs. Mary A. Crawford, of Madison, 
Georgia, whose helpful sympathy and 
prayers have followed me through many 
years of arduous toil, and whose liberality 
has proven a great blessing to Asbury 
College. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Chapters. Page. 

1. A Few Great Facts 7 

II. The Prophetic Method of Reve- 
lation 15 

III. Nebuchadnezzar's Image 25 

IV. Satan's Ambition to Rule the 

World 35 

V. The Purpose of the Kaiser 41 

VI. The Horrors of the War 49 

VII. Uncle Sam to the Rescue 57 

VIII. The Pacifists 69 

IX. When the War is Over— What ? . 79 

X. The Coming Kingdom 89 



"In the beginning God created the 
heaven and the earth." Gen. 1:1, 

"The heavens declare the glory of God ; 
the firmament sheweth his handiwork. 
Day unto day uttereth speech, and night 
unto night sheweth knowledge." Psa. 
19:1,2. 

"Declaring the end from the beginning, 
and from ancient times the things that 
are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall 
stand, and I will do all my pleasure." 
Isa. 46:10. 



CHAPTER I. 
A Few Great Facts. 

We desire, in the beginning of the dis- 
cussions to follow, to call attention to a 
few great facts, the first of which is, that 
this universe did not come into existence 
by accident, and is not governed by chance. 
God created all things, and placed the 
whole under law, and His supreme will 
reigns over all. 

HE HAS A DEFINITE PROGRAM for 
the direction and control of all affairs 
upon this planet. He cannot be hurried, 
and He cannot be retarded or diverted 
from His Program, Nothing is done by 
chance in the administration of His King- 
dom, but all things move with beautiful 
order and harmony, and the great events 
of history come to pass at their appointed 

time. 

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8 The World War in Prophecy, 

Few subjects of study can be more enter- 
taining and profitable to the devout mind, 
than to search the Scriptures in order to 
find out just where we are in the Divine 
program of the history of our world. 

The second fact, to which we call atten- 
tion is this : GOD HAS BROKEN TIME 
UP INTO AGES, OR DISPENSATIONS. 
Each dispensation closes with the judg- 
ments of God upon the wicked; the sift- 
ing out of the wheat from the chaff; and, 
each dispensation prepares the way for a 
larger revelation, aind a better age. 

The first dispensation closed with the 
Flood. After ample warning and oppor- 
tunity for repentance, God swept away the 
rebellious multitudes, sparing only eight 
righteous souls, Noah and his family. For 
a long time the memory of the Flood, with 
its fearful lesson, the fact that God would 
send His judgments upon the wicked, had 
a salutary effect upon the race, and pre- 
pared the way for the calling of Abraham, 



The World War in Prophecy. 9 

and the inauguration of the Hebrew dis- 
pensation. 

The Hebrew dispensation was a time of 
great revelation and blessing; the knowl- 
edge of God was largely spread through 
the earth. In the development of the race, 
the understanding of the Divine character, 
and the Divine government, it far sur- 
passed the antediluvian age. The chosen 
people, the Israelites, however, were prone 
to backsliding, and reached the climax of 
wickedness in the crucifixion of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

John the Baptist pointed to the coming 
end of this dispensation when he declared, 
"The axe is laid unto the root of the trees." 
The tree of the Hebrew dispensation was 
hewn down when the Roman army cap- 
tured Jerusalem and carried her people 
into captivity from which they have not 
been restored. 

When our Lord Jesus on the cross ex- 
claimed, "It is finished,'^ He not only meant 



10 The World War in Prophecy. 

that in the giving up of His life the great 
work of the atonement was finished, but 
the age — a dispensation — ^had come to its 
closing chapter; a new and higher order 
of things was to be introduced into the 
world. The Christian Church was to be 
organized, and the Gospel dispensation 
ushered in, which in contrast with any 
other dispensation of the past, was far to 
outshine them all. 

The world of mankind has made far 
more progress in everything that goes to 
contribute to human happiness, during the 
Gospel dispensation, than during all the 
ages of the past. Under the enlightenment 
of the Gospel, general civilization has 
spread among the nations of the earth. 
Almost all the inhabitants of the world 
have felt, to some extent, the benefits of 
the gracious influence of the Gospel age. 
The great discoveries of nature's resources 
and the adaptation of those resources to 
the needs of men, v/ith the innumerable in- 



The World War in Prophecy, 11 

ventions that have helped forward human 
progress, have come to us through the 
quickening and enlightenment of the hu- 
man intellect through the gracious influ- 
ence of the Gospel. Truly Christ's coming 
has not only brought life, but it has 
brought us life more abundant. It is safe 
to say that the light of the present dis- 
pensation, as contrasted with any past age, 
is as the Morning Star in its beauty, com- 
pared to the glow-worm in the swamp. 

The Christian reader will remember 
that in the Divine program there is to 
come another dispensation, which will sur- 
pass the present as far as the Gospel dis- 
pensation surpasses the Hebrew age. As 
the Hebrew prepared the way for this, this 
is preparing the way for the golden age 
foretold in prophecy, in which the Lord 
Jesus Christ Himself shall reign supreme ; 
when men shall learn war no more, when 
swords are beaten into plowshares, and 
spears into pruning-hooks ; when peace and 



12 The World War in Prophecy, 

fraternity shall pervade the entire earth; 
when the kingdoms of this world shall be- 
come the kingdoms of our Lord and His 
Christ; when the knowledge of the glory 
of the Lord shall cover the earth as the 
waters cover the sea. 

The third fact to which we call attention 
is this: In revealing Himself, His laws, 
His will, and His love for the human race, 
God has chosen largely the PROPHETIC 
METHOD. He has spoken to holy men, and 
sent them to declare His will and testimony 
to His people. By means of this method 
God has given us a revelation capable of 
positive proof, placing the Bible entirely 
beyond the possibility of guesswork or for- 
gery, on the high and solid foundation of 
absolute trustworthiness. The prophetic 
method enables us to prove by the well- 
known facts of history, that the holy Seers 
of old were inspired by the Holy Ghost to 
speak and to write. 



*Tor prophecy came not of old time by 
the will of man : but holy men of God spake 
as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 
2 Pet. 1 :21. 

''And the Lord hath sent unto you all 
his servants the Prophets, rising early 
and sending them ; but ye have not heark- 
ened, nor inclined your ear to hear." 
Jer. 25:4. 



CHAPTER II. 
The Prophetic Method of Revelation. 

We have every reason to believe that the 
God v>^ho created the universe, Who built 
this v^orld and placed upon it intelligent, 
moral beings, will reveal Himself to these 
beings. It is in harmoy v^ith the eternal 
fitness of things that v^e should find among 
men just such a book as the Bible — a rev- 
elation from God. And it is eminently 
proper and to be desired, that the Bible 
be of such a character that its Divine 
origin is self-evident; that it contain in 
and of itself, positive proof of its inspira- 
tion. 

We do not propose any general dis- 
cussion of the various evidences of the 
genuineness of Christianity, and the proofs 
of the Divine origin of the Holy Scriptures, 
but we do wish to impress upon our read- 
ers the fact that one of the clearest and 
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16 The World War in Prophecy, 

most satisfactory evidences of the inspira- 
tion of the Bible is found in the prophecies 
contained in the Scriptures, and their very- 
remarkable and minute fulfillment. 

It was the wisdom of God to give us the 
Holy Scriptures in two books; or, to be 
more accurate, in the collection of a num- 
ber of books in two volumes — ^the Old and 
the New Testament. The Old Testament 
was written long before the New. The 
Old Testament is fully endorsed, and lib- 
erally quoted by our Lord Jesus and His 
Apostles, who were the authors of the 
New Testament. The Old Testament is 
largely made up of prophecies; the New 
Testament is largely a record of the ful- 
fillment of those prophecies. An American 
scholar has wisely said, "The New Testa- 
ment is shut up in the Old, and the Old 
Testament is opened up in the New." 

These two collections of books splendidly 
confirm the truthfulness and reliability of 
each other. As might be supposed, God 



The World War in Prophecy, 17 

proposed to give a living revelation of 
Himself of such character that its truth- 
fulness could be proven beyond all possi- 
bility of cavil or doubt. It was His wis- 
dom to take into His counsels holy men of 
old, to whom He revealed the secret of the 
ages, and while they taught the people of 
their times their obligations to God and 
their fellow-beings, the blessings to be se- 
cured hy obedient and virtuous living, and 
the disaster which would inevitably befall 
the wicked and rebellious, they also looked 
far into the future and predicted the com- 
ing events of human history with such 
accuracy and detail that the Scriptures are 
lifted entirely out of the realm of uncer- 
tainty, or the possibility of human for- 
gery, on to the high plain of absolute and 
positive proof of their Divine origin and 
inspiration. 

The great pivotal events of the history 
of the world are so faithfully foretold and 
so accurately described by the ancient 



18 The World War in Prophecy. 

prophets, that there is but one possible way 
to account for their knowledge of coming 
events, and that is, they were inspired by 
the Holy Spirit. 

Before the Israelites entered the land of 
Canaan, Moses prophesied their apostasy 
and final dispersion among their heathen 
captors. The fall of Babylon was faith- 
fully predicted by a holy prophet when the 
city in its riches, splendor and strength 
looked as if it could withstand every foe, 
and wear out the ages. Prophet after 
prophet foretold the fall of Jerusalem 
when their warnings were sneered at by 
an arrogant and rebellious people, who 
were hurrying forward to their doom, so 
faithfully portrayed by the prophets of the 
Lord. 

Seven hundred years before the angelic 
choir startled the Shepherds as they 
watched their flocks an Judean hills, the 
Prophet Micah had pointed out the coun- 
try, and named the village, where the 



The World War in Prophecy, 19 

Lord Jesus should be born, when he wrote : 
"But thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though 
thou be little among the thousands of 
Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth 
unto me that is to be ruler in Israel." 
Centuries afterward, when the Wise Men, 
following the star, came to Jerusalem, in- 
quiring where Christ should be born, as- 
serting that they had seen His star in the 
East and had come to worship Him, Herod 
the king, was greatly troubled, and all Je- 
rusalem with him, and he demanded of the 
chief priests and scribes where Jesus 
should be born ; they answered him : "In 
Bethlehem of Judea : for thus it is written 
by the prophet." They referred him to 
the same prophecy of Micah, quoted above. 
It is interesting to note the fact that 
the prophets go into very minute details 
in some of their descriptions of future 
events, so that there is absolutely no ac- 
counting for their knowledge of these de- 
tails except on the basis of their Divine 



20 The World War in Prophecy, 

inspiration. Many hundreds of years be- 
fore our Lord made His triumphal entry 
into Jerusalem, we find the prophet Zech- 
ariah proclaiming, ''Rejoice greatly, O 
daughter of Zion; shout, daughter of 
Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto 
thee: He is just, and having salvation; 
lovely, and riding upon an ass, and upon 
a colt the foal of an ass.*' Turning to 
Matthew's Gospel, 21st chapter, we find 
this prophecy was fulfilled in every detail. 
No one of the ancient prophets had a 
clearer insight into the person and mis- 
sion of our Lord Jesus, than Isaiah. So 
clear is his vision, and so minute and ac- 
curate are his descriptions, that hundreds 
of years before the birth of the Savior he 
puts down incidents which occurred in 
His life as if they had already taken place. 
He describes His humble person; he tells 
of His patient and silent sufferings: "He 
is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and 
as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so 



The World War in Prophecy, 21 

He opened not His mouth. He was bruised 
for our iniquities : the chastisement of our 
peace was upon Him ; and with His stripes 
we are healed. He made his grave with 
the wicked, and with the rich in His 
death." Then the prophet's horizon is 
lifted and he beholds the gracious outcome 
and results of the sufferings of our Lord, 
and exclaims in triumph, "He shall see of 
the travail of His soul, and shall be sat- 
isfied." This 53rd chapter of Isaiah's 
prophecy is so perfectly fulfilled in the his- 
tory of Christ's sufferings, as we find them 
recorded in the Gospel, that the Christian 
may rejoice in the absolute certainty of 
the Divine inspiration of the holy prophet. 
King David was not only the Psalm 
writer for Israel, but he was also a proph- 
et, and is constantly referring in the 
Psalms to our Lord Jesus. Among other 
things, he describes an incident which oc- 
curred at the foot of the Cross on the day 
of the crucifixion. The Psalmist says. 



22 The World War in Prophecy, 

"They part My garments among them, and 
cast lots upon My vesture." This was 
written many hundred years before the 
tragic event on Calvary. But Matthew, in 
the 27th chapter and 35th verse, shows 
how accurately this prophecy of the Psalm- 
ist was fulfilled: 'They parted My gar- 
ments among them, and upon My vesture 
did they cast lots." 

We cannot understand how any intelli- 
gent, fairminded being, reading this an- 
cient prophecy and its remarkable fulfill- 
ment, will be able to question the Divine 
inspiration of the Psalmist David. Again, 
David says, speaking of Christ, ''He keep- 
eth all His bones: not one of them is 
broken." In John, 19th chapter, it reads : 
"Then came the soldiers, and brake the 
legs of the first, and of the other which 
was crucified with him. But when they 
came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead 
already, they brake not His legs. For 
these things were done, that the Scripture 



The World War in Prophecy, 23 

should be fulfilled, A bone of Him shall 
not be broken." 

It will be remembered that the soldier 
did, in order to ascertain whether our Lord 
was actually dead, pierce His side with a 
spear, while his companions stood gazing 
on to see if the spear would bring forth 
any manifestation of life. This was in 
fulfillment of a prophecy in Zechariah 12 : 
10 : "And they shall look upon Me whom 
they have pierced." 

We might give enough prophecies with 
their fulfillment to fill a large volume, but 
what we have given is amply suflftcient to 
prove the trustworthiness of the prophe- 
cies contained in the Holy Scriptures. 



**And he changeth the times and the 
seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth 
up kings ; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, 
and knowledge to them that know un- 
derstanding. He revealeth the deep and 
secret things: He knoweth what is in the 
darkness, and the light dwelleth with 
him." Dan. 2:21, 22. 



CHAPTER III. 

Nebuchadnezzar's Image. 

While much of prophecy clusters about 
the world's Redeemer, predicting His 
coming, His teaching. His sufferings and 
death. His resurrection and triumph, it 
must be understood that the prophets also 
foretold many things concerning world 
history, and the great events which are to 
occur as the Divine program goes forward 
to the final exaltation and glory, when He 
shall be crowned King of kings, and Lord 
of lords. 

One of these prophecies which is^of 
special interest at the present time, is to 
be found in the second chapter of the book 
of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar, king of Bab- 
ylon, in a dream saw a great image. Its 
head was of gold, its breasts and arms 
were of silver, its belly and thighs were of 
brass, its legs of iron, and its feet part of 
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26 The World War in Prophecy, 

iron and part of clay. The King also saw 
in his vision that a stone was cut, 
without hands, which smote the image 
upon his feet, and broke in pieces the en- 
tire image, until it became like the chaff 
of the summer threshing floors; and the 
wind carried it away; but the stone which 
smote the image, became a great mountain, 
and filled the whole earth. 

The reader who is acquainted with the 
book of Daniel will recall that Nebuchad- 
nezzar had the dream but entirely forgot 
details. Being troubled to know its mean- 
ing, he called for his astrologers and wise 
men, and demanded that they should tell 
him the dream and its interpretation. The 
wise men insisted that he should tell the 
dream, and they would give the interpre- 
tation. At this he became angry and de- 
clared that all the wise men of Babylon 
should be slain. When Daniel was sought 
by the executioner he asked for time, and 
went to God in prayer Who gave him both 



The World War in Prophecy. 27 

the dream, and its interpretation, which 
Daniel explained to the full satisfaction of 
the king. The very fact that Daniel gave 
to the king his own dream, in all its 
details, convinced the king that its inter- 
pretation was fully trustworthy. 

Daniel's interpretation of the dream re- 
vealed the fact that there were to be four 
great world empires, of which Nebuchad- 
nezzar, representing the head of gold, was 
the first, reigning over the Babylonian em- 
pire. The second empire represented by the 
breast of silver, was the Medo-Persian, 
which was soon to follow. And the third, 
represented by the belly and thighs of 
brass, was the Grecian empire which over- 
threw the Medo-Persian. The fourth 
world empire which overthrew the Gre- 
cian, was the Roman, which was repre- 
sented by the legs of iron, and is described 
as being exceedingly fierce and destructive. 
These prophecies of Daniel, describing 
the image to Nebuchadnezzar, have been 



28 The World War in Prophecy. 

remarkably fulfilled. Had the Roman 
empire been followed by another great 
world empire, Daniel's prophecy would 
have broken down, and history would have 
proven him inaccurate ; but fortunately for 
the Bible, the Word of God, which never 
makes mistakes, and cannot fail, true to 
Daniel's description of the image, at the 
fall of the Roman empire, many smaller 
kingdoms, representing the toes of this 
image, were set up, and have existed ever 
since the breaking up of the Roman em- 
pire. 

We are now in that period of historj'' 
represented by the toes of the image ; and 
the reader will remember that these toes 
were part of iron, and part of clay, repre- 
senting the strength and weakness of the 
kingdom of the world today. Any one 
who knows anything of world conditions is 
well aware of the fact that there is a state 
of division and strife among the peoples of 
all nations at the present time. The great 



The World War in Prophecy, 29 

war now in progress has had quite a ten- 
dency to unite the people of the various 
nations for self -protection. 

It is claimed by some, and not without 
sound argument, that Germany hurried up 
this war in order to save her own nation 
from an internal revolution brought on by 
the rapid growth of radical socialism. 
Those acquainted with current history, are 
well aware of the fact that there have re- 
cently been great internal disturbances in 
Spain, and Alfonzo has been trembling on 
his throne. Mexico has been a slaughter 
pen of internal strife, Greece has been rent 
asunder, Ireland was on the verge of open 
rebellion and war against England when 
the great war broke out. Social disturb- 
ance and conflict between labor and cap- 
ital, have menaced the peace and pros- 
perity of these United States for years. 
Since the Russo-Japanese war Russia's in- 
ternal conditions have been like a smoking 
volcano, trembling with the constant 
threat of fearful eruption. 



30 The World War in Prophecy, 

World conditions immediately before our 
great war are accurately described by the 
iron and clay — ^the strength and weakness 
— foretold in the toes of the great image. 
We do not see how any one who believes 
the Bible to be an inspired book, can con- 
sistently reject the prophecies of Daniel; 
and we do not see how any one who be- 
lieves DanieFs prophecy can reasonably 
evade the fact that we are in the very 
"toe age" of the great image; and this 
brings us face to face with the glorious 
fact that we are rapidly approaching the 
time when the stone, which is the King- 
dom of Christ, is to break in pieces, and 
consume all these kingdoms, and fill the 
whole earth. 

Daniel, describing this period of the di- 
vision of the great Roman empire into 
many smaller kingdoms, and the mixed 
and weakened condition of these kingdoms, 
says, "And in the days of these kings shall 
the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which 



The World War in Prophecy. 31 

shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom 
shall not be left to other people, but it shall 
break in pieces and consume all these king- 
doms, and it shall stand forever." 

It is an interesting fact, and well worth 
the serious consideration of thinking peo- 
ple, everywhere, that just at this time, 
when the prophetic finger points to the 
closing of a dispensation, that the great 
war should have broken out, involving 
practically, all nations in a destructive 
strife without parallel in the history of the 
world. It looks as if the breaking up of 
the kingdoms was at least in its begin- 
nings. A number of kings are at the 
present time in exile, and it is the very 
general prophecy of thoughtful statesmen 
that some of the world*s greatest empires 
will go to pieces, and some of the most 
powerful thrones will be vacated and de- 
stroyed at the close of the war. 

There is one thing absolutely certain : if 
DanieFs prophecies are trustworthy, we 



32 The World War in Prophecy, 

are rapidly approaching the end of this 
dispensation, and the inauguration of a far 
better one. Daniel's prophecies are trust- 
worthy because his interpretation of the 
different parts of the image has been lit- 
erally fulfilled, and is plainly written in 
the pages of secular history. The four 
great kingdoms have arisen, flourished, 
and fallen. The territory once occupied 
by these vast empires is now occupied by 
a number of smaller kingdoms, and these 
kingdoms, partly strong and partly broken, 
are before our eyes today in actual current 
history. Daniel's prophecies, in their re- 
markable fulfillment up to the present 
time, prove him trustworthy. 

Shall we not lift up our heads with hope, 
that the coming of our Lord draweth near ! 



"How art thou fallen from heaven, 
Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou 
cut down to the ground, which didst 
weaken the nations! For thou hast said 
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I 
will exalt my throne above the stars of 
God : I will sit also upon the mount of the 
congregation, in the sides of the north : I 
will ascend above the heights of the clouds ; 
I will be like the most High.'' Isa. 14:12, 
13, 14. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Satan's Ambition to Rule the World. 

The Scriptures teach us that through 
ambition to exalt himself to supreme ru- 
lership, a great angel became the devil. 
From the Scriptures we also learn that 
since his fall he has constantly sought ab- 
solute rulership of this planet and its in- 
habitants, and while he has met with a 
large degree of success, he has not yet been 
able to boast himself of complete mastery. 

Satan is a great counterfeiter. It seems 
he has always sought to find out the Divine 
plan, and as nearly as possible, imitate 
God's scheme of government, to deceive the 
people and bring them under his sway. 

God determined in the redemption of the 
race and the restitution of order and hap- 
piness in the world, to incarnate Himself 
in humanity, to blend two natures into one, 

to give the world a great King Who com- 
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36 The World War in Prophecy. 

bined in Himself the humanity which en- 
abled Him to sympathize with men, and 
the Deity which enabled Him to save men. 
For many centuries Satan has been seek- 
ing to follow something of the same 
method in world government. His plan 
has been to bring the whole world under 
the government of one man, and to bring 
that man under his control, filling that 
man with his spirit of merciless cruelty, 
and thus governing the earth himself 
through a human agent. 

Several times in past history he has 
made remarkable success in this effort, and 
will no doubt come more nearly approx- 
imating that success in the Man of Sin, 
frequently referred to in the Scriptures, 
who is to appear in the closing days of this 
dispensation. All of the great world 
rulers in the earlier history of the human 
race, were not only men of marvelous 
power, but of desperate wickedness. 

Alexander the Great was no doubt a 



The World War in Prophecy. 37 

supreme effort of Satan to produce a man 
of sin, who should rule the world with des- 
potic tyranny, robbing man of the liberty 
and happiness planned for him by his 
Maker. He was followed by Julius Caesar 
who sought to rule the whole world ; and he 
was followed by Napoleon Bonaparte, a 
marvelous military genius, almost a super- 
man, who shook the world with his pow- 
erful armies, and who was as merciless 
as he was brilliant. The human suffering 
which his insatiable ambition entailed up- 
on the race is incalculable. It has been 
so with all the monstrous men who, in- 
spired by Satan, have sought world power, 
and heedless of the devastation and ruin 
which they have spread abroad among 
their feilov/ beings, have used all their 
large capacities, no doubt quickened and 
increased by the inspiration of Satan him- 
self. 

Satan's last effort to date, for world ru- 
lership, has headed up in the German 



38 The World War in Prophecy, 

Kaiser. It is not to be supposed that any 
of these men who have aspired to world 
rulership, understand that their ambition 
has been inspired by the devil. They have 
doubtless believed themselves to be bene- 
factors. By some strange method of rea- 
soning they convinced themselves that they 
ought to rule ; that their undisputed sway 
would be best for the race ; that they would 
be able to introduce a better social order 
among men. This is evidently true of the 
Kaiser. He does not dream that he is the 
agent of the devil; that Satanic influence 
dominates his mind, and has nursed and 
developed in him a proud and arrogant 
ambition through the years to control and 
become the military dictator of the world. 
While the Kaiser makes loud and fre- 
quent religious professions, and believes 
himself to be the agent of the God of heav- 
en, his spirit and methods demonstrate the 
fact that he is the agent of the god of this 
world. Never in the history of the race, 



The World War in Prophecy, 39 

has any military chieftain shown himself 
more indifferent to the laws of civilization, 
more callous and merciless, deaf and in- 
different to the cries of suffering human- 
ity than the German Kaiser during the 
progress of this great world war. We can- 
not recall a single action that, in the least 
degree, suggests that he has been for one 
moment influenced by the Spirit of the 
Prince of Peace, or governed by the holy 
God of compassion and mercy. 

It will be remembered that directly after 
His baptism, Jesus was taken to a high 
mountain by the devil, where He was 
shown the kingdoms and glory of this 
world. Satan claimed to own them, and 
offered them to Christ if He would wor- 
ship Him ; make Satan His god ; place Sa- 
tan first, in world rulership. While the 
devil was offering a great prize, and no 
doubt lying, he was careful to reserve for 
himself the highest place. If he bestowed 
the gift which he proposed, Christ must 
worship him. 



"The devil taketh him up into an ex- 
ceeding high mountain, and sheweth him 
all the kingdoms of the world, and the 
glory of them; and saith unto him. All 
these things will I give thee, if thou wilt 
fall down and worship me." Matt. 4:8, 9. 



CHAPTER V. 

The Purpose of the Kaiser. 

There is no doubt but Satan has had the 
German Kaiser upon the high mountain 
of temptation, and has offered him world 
power. It is hardly likely that he appears 
to the Kaiser in his true character. It is 
quite probable that he manifests him- 
self as the angel of German "kul- 
tur." He succeeded in making the Kaiser 
believe that he was the god of the universe 
when, in fact, he is only the god of this 
world ; and under the delusion that he was 
the vicegerent of heaven to set up a better 
order of things on the earth. The deluded 
and devil-possessed Kaiser has proceeded 
to turn the earth into one vast slaughter 

pen. 

There are no figures with which we can 
sum up and calculate the human suffering 
which the world has passed through during 
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42 The World War in Prophecy, 

the present great war. It was not enough 
that the Kaiser himself should be obsessed 
with a diabolical passion to dictate world 
affairs, but the people of Germany must be 
so brought under his influence, and the 
domination of the deluded and ensavaged 
men who surrounded his throne, that they 
would become the ready and willing agents 
in the wreck and ruin of the nations of the 
earth. 

For the past seventy-five years destruc- 
tive critics in the pulpits, colleges and uni- 
versities, of the Central Empire, have pre- 
pared the German people for the merciless 
slaughter of today. A people to carry out 
the orders of the Kaiser and his great gen- 
erals, must be weaned away from the plain 
teachings of the Holy Scriptures. They 
must imbibe the doctrines of evolution. 
They must believe the race to be on its 
way up, having just about arrived at 
the ferocious stage of the tiger. 
They must feel that irreverence for hu- 



The World War in Prophecy. 43 

manity of which men will be easily capable 
when they conclude themselves and their 
fellow-beings to be a well developed breed 
of apes. 

There is no doubt or question in our 
minds but the destructive critics of the 
great universities and pulpits of Germany 
have succeeded in making the German sol- 
dier what he is today — a furious, merci- 
less, mad-man — the dread of all the earth, 
the heartless butcherer of unarmed men 
and helpless women, with their babes at 
their breasts. 

From the very first, the German army 
has seemed to take a fiendish delight in 
destruction. They have turned beautiful 
cities into smouldering heaps of ruin and 
ashes, where no military advantage was to 
be gained. They have wasted tons of am- 
munition in the destruction of beautiful 
temples erected for the worship of God. 
They have outraged women, destroyed 
homes, broken up furniture, slaughtered 



44 The World War m Prophecy. 

dumb brutes, chopped down fruit trees, 
and if there is anything that they have left 
undone in the way of merciless destruc- 
tion, that an army of fiends, out of the pits 
of perdition could accomplish, we fail to 
understand what it could have been. 

Satan inspired the Kaiser with his un- 
governable ambition. He rallied around 
him the blood-thirsty leaders of his co- 
horts. He saturated the German nation 
with skeptical teaching which destroyed 
the pure faith of Christian religion. He 
wrote question marks all over the Holy 
Scriptures; he brought them to deny and 
ridicule the inspiration of the sacred Book. 
They have questioned the Deity of Jesus 
Christ, and ridiculed the faith in Him 
which saves men from sin, and spreads 
abroad the spirit of fraternity and Chris- 
tian fellowship. They have boasted that 
they would write a new Bible. Long be- 
fore the Emperor drew his sword in this 
fearful world war, German destructive 



The World War in Prophecy, 45 

criticism had become the plague of the re- 
ligious world. The unbelief fostered in 
their universities, was spreading abroad 
and doing great harm and hurt to the 
whole spirit of evangelical religion 
throughout the world. No country or de- 
nomination has escaped the baneful influ- 
ence of the skeptical scholarship of the 
German universities. 

Those arrogant teachers and preachers 
in this country who are following the lead 
of the destructive critics of Germany, are 
the most dangerous enemies of the Church, 
of society, and of this great republic. The 
men who destroy the faith of the people in 
the reliability and authority of the Word 
of God, do the people and the nation irre- 
parable injury. 

If Germany had been saturated with 
evangelical Bible truth, had the pure Gos- 
pel of a free and full salvation been faith- 
fully preached throughout this nation, the 



46 The World War in Prophecy. 

present war, with its heartless cruelties, 
would have been a moral impossibility. 

The religious and political literature of 
Germany reveals two great facts which ac- 
count for present world conditions. One 
is, that the moulders of thought in Ger- 
many, with rare exceptions, have surren- 
dered the faith in the inspiration of the 
Scriptures; and the other is, they have 
come to be devoted believers in war. They 
believe it is right to trample under fuot 
the weaker nations of the earth; to go to 
any extent of the ruthless destruction of 
life and property in order to carry out 
their ideas of absolutism. Turning from 
Christ and His Gospel, they have come to 
worship ODIN, the god of war. 

The number and character of the books 
on war, written by leading Germans with- 
in the last few years, is startling, and re- 
veals the fact that the entire moral atmos- 
phere of the nation was soaked and sat- 
urated with the spirit of militarism, and 



The World War in Prophecy, 47 

the erroneous and diabolical notion that 
"might makes right." In the light of all 
the facts at hand it cannot be doubted thai 
the Kaiser and his coadjutors, while they 
have secretly planned and manufactured 
the great cannon of which the world knew 
nothing, the U-boat which they brought to 
an unsuspected perfection, and the Zeppe- 
lin, with its murderous bombs to rain 
upon the helpless people of undefended 
cities, and have had as the one end in view, 
world poiver. Undoubtedly, the devil has 
had the Kaiser up in an exceeding high 
mountain ; and unconsciously, no doubt, the 
Kaiser has bowed the knee to his Satanic 
majesty. When he speaks of ''Me und 
Gott," deceived in his own heart, he means 
"Me and Odin." 



"For nation shall rise against nation, 
and kingdom against kingdom; and there 
shall be famines, and pestilences, and 
earthquakes, in divers places. All these 
are the beginning of sorrows." Matt. 
24:7,8. 



CHAPTER VI. 
The Horrors of the War. 

The close of each dispensation has been 
signally marked by the judgments of God 
upon the wicked. The Scriptures clearly 
teach that the same will be true of the 
closing years of the present dispensation. 
God is merciful, slow to anger, and of 
great kindness, but He will not always 
chide, neither will He keep His anger for- 
ever. 

The nations have grievously sinned, and 

the time of God's judgments are upon us. 

Not Germany alone is guilty before God. 

The Sabbath desecration, the drunkenness, 

the unbelief, the blasphemy of the world 

are appalling. The vast multitudes of our 

population act as if there were no God ; as 

if we had no revelation from Him, no laws 

to keep, no judgments to fear. 

Take the sin of impurity alone, which 
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50 The Woyid War in Prophecy. 

is the prolific mother of all vice and degra- 
dation. In our allied nations in this great 
war v/e have so many base women, seeking 
the money, the vigor and health of our 
soldiers, that the government, struggling 
against the power of the Central empires, 
fear the lewd women of our own nations 
more than they do the armies of Germany. 
These are appalling statements, but they 
are sadly true. 

All the world has sinned, and all the 
world must suffer; but Germany is the 
ambitious aggressor in this horrible war. 
She has set herself to overthrow civiliza- 
tion, to trample ruthlessly upon the liber- 
ties and rights of men. She has disre- 
garded the Holy Scriptures, and trained 
her guns against the very throne of God 
and righteousness. The devastation and 
ruin she has spread through the earth, is 
without parallel. It would be almost im- 
possible to exaggerate the sufferings in- 
flicted upon the Belgium people; the men 



The World Wai' in Prophecy. 51 

who have been murdered, the little child- 
ren who have perished because of hunger 
and exposure, the women who have been 
outraged, the families who have been 
broken up and shipped about in trains 
from one place to another like cattle, sur- 
passes anything in all the records of hu- 
man history. 

This war, so long planned and prepared 
for by the ambitious Kaiser and his coad- 
jutors, in which they have trained, offi- 
cered, and armed the unspeakable and 
fiendish Turk, has led to the merciless 
slaughter of eight hundred thousand un- 
armed and helpless Armenian Christians. 
The thought staggers the mind. It is dif- 
ficult to grasp the proportions of so hor- 
rible a tragedy. The Kaiser has done all 
in his power to inaugurate a religious war, 
turning the hordes of Mohammedans loose 
in merciless rapine to deluge the whole 
Christian world with fire and blood. 

Palestine, which has been struggling to 



52 The World War in Prophecy. 

her feet through the Zionist movement for 
the past century, in which many beautiful 
and thrifty colonies of returned Jews were 
beginning to bloom with some substantial 
prospect of peace and hope, has been rav- 
aged and swept, as with a besom of de- 
struction. Thousands of desolated Jews 
have fled for refuge down into Egypt, and 
others have perished from starvation and 
under the merciless sword. 

The outrages perpetrated in that part 
of France, which has been invaded and 
held by the German army, cannot be de- 
scribed in human language. The suffering 
in Poland, especially among the Jews, is 
without parallel. Mr. Rohold, a highly 
educated and influential Jew, figures that 
not less than 500,000 Jews have perished 
in Poland and Russia as one of the fruits 
of this horrible war. 

It is a scene too dark and awful to dwell 
upon. It is the outcome and fruitage of 
the insane ambition of a human being un- 



The World War in Prophecy, 53 

der the deception and domination of Satan. 
The Kaiser is not the final Man of Sin, 
spoken of in the Scriptures, who shall al- 
most entirely dominate and rule the world 
in the closing days of this dispensation, 
but he is the forerunner of this coming son 
of Satan. He illustrates the possibility of 
a human being swallowed up by ambition 
to rule, and inspired and led on by the 
spirit of all evil. There is no hope for 
peace among men until his power is 
broken, his followers, who rally about 
his standards, are disillusioned, and Ger- 
many, herself, as well as the rest of the 
world, delivered from the merciless grasp 
of militarism. 

No one human individual in all the world 
has brought such suffering and ruin to all 
the world, as the German Kaiser. In no 
one instance has he instructed his soldiers 
to spare a country or people ; to show mer- 
cy to the unarmed and defenseless ; to treat 
with consideration the unfortunate mother 



54 The World War in Prophecy, 

and infant who fell under the power of 
their savage and brutal grasp. 

There is no language with which to de- 
scribe the suffering which the insane am- 
bitions of the German Kaiser and his war 
lords have inflicted upon the human race. 
There are no mathematics with which to 
calculate the number of soldiers slain, of 
citizens butchered in cold blood, of women 
outraged, of little children who have per- 
ished, of cities, villages, and homes laid in 
ashes, of churches destroyed, and the black 
crepe of sorrow hung upon the doorknob 
of hundreds and thousands of mourning 
homes. Language utterly fails to tell the 
fearful story of this world tragedy thrust 
upon the race by the proud and selfish am- 
bition of a few m.en who have yielded 
themselves up as the deluded victims of 
the devil, who are described so graphically 
in the following words, found in Revela- 
tion, 12th chapter and 12th verse : "Woe 
to the inhabiters of the earth and of the 



The World War in Prophecy, 55 

sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, 
having great v^rath, because he knoweth 
that he hath but a short time." 

In his hatred of God, of peace, and his 
furious desire to destroy the race and turn 
our earth into a smoldering heap of blood 
and ruin, Satan congratulates himself in 
having secured for his agent the Kaiser 
and his followers. 



"The noise of a multitude in the moun- 
tains, like as of a great people; a tumul- 
tuous noise of the kingdoms of nations 
gathered together: The Lord of hosts 
mustereth the host of the battle. They 
come from a far country, from the end of 
heaven, even the Lord, and the v^eapons of 
his indignation, to destroy the v^hole land. 
Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at 
hand; it shall come as a destruction from 
the Almighty.'^ Isa. 13 :4, 5, 6. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Uncle Sam to the Rescue. 

No humane man can sit placidly on his 
front porch, reading his Bible, while a 
band of ruffians murders his neighbors 
across the street, outrages the women, 
maims the children, ransacks and burns 
the property. No prudent man could re- 
main inactive under such circumstances, 
when he has positive proof that spies con- 
nected with this band of ruffians have al- 
ready carefully inspected his premises, and 
marked his own home for the next in the 
order of destruction. 

Germany had not only gone to war with 
a number of nations in Europe, but she 
had gone to war against the great funda- 
mental principles of human freedom. She 
had begun a crusade against the entire 
spirit of democratic principles, and all re- 
publican forms of government throughout 
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58 The World War in Prophecy, 

the earth. Her scheme of conquest knew 
no boundary lines of nations, and spared 
no people among civilized men from her 
plan of rapine and murder, in her effort 
for world m.astery. 

Germany not only sank the Lusitania in 
violation of the laws which govern civil- 
ized people, but her entire diplomatic 
corps, while professing friendship, were 
acting spies and honeycombing the entire 
nation v/ith paid agents to prejudice and 
produce disunion and strife among our 
citizens ; at the same time her hired incen- 
diaries were setting the torch to our fac- 
tories, and sending up millions of dollars 
of valuable property in flames. Worse 
still, her diplomatic corps was busy seek- 
ing to arrange to bring a vast Japanese 
army into Mexico, and to turn the whole 
Mexican horde of murderous, half -civilized 
people loose upon our Western population, 
with the promise of ample reward in the 
gift of vast sections of our territory. 



The W07M War in Prophecy. 59 

The ruthlessness with which Germany 
murdered our people, destroyed our prop- 
erty, and the hypocrisy with which she 
planned to thrust a cruel war upon us, with 
a full purpose of wresting from us vast 
regions of territory, is a species of diabol- 
ical hypocrisy unsurpassed in the diplo- 
matic history of nations. 

The patience and forbearance of the 
American nation, under the most powerful 
provocation, has never been equaled in all 
the conflicts of history. Hateful as war 
is, as much of suffering and sorrow as it 
involves, there was absolutely nothing left 
to the American people but to declare war 
against Germany. Germany had already, 
and had for some time, been at war against 
the United States. Not only had she taken 
many lives and destroyed millions of dol- 
lars worth of property, but was doing her 
utmost to turn against us a neighboring 
nation, and was ready to arm, equip, and 
officer the Mexican people to cut the 



60 The World War in Prophecy. 

throats of unarmed men, and outrage the 
women of the West, as the German army 
had done the women of Belgium and 
France. 

The whole matter reduced itself to the 
simple proposition: Would the American 
people join the allied nations of Europe 
to fight against the Central powers, or 
would she sit supinely by while the Cen- 
tral powers crushed the civilization of Eu- 
rope; meanwhile destroying our ammuni- 
tion factories, sinking our ships, and her 
diplomatic corps sowing broadcast dissen- 
sion and strife among our people, and in 
the end, our nation having to fight Ger- 
many alone, and unprepared, without the 
sympathy or assistance of any one. 

There was but one thing left, and that 
was to meet Germany on her own ground, 
and fight for our existence. If a nation 
ever went to war on an honorable basis, 
and in a righteous cause, in this instance, 
it was our nation. Our brave soldier boys 



The World War in Prophecy. 61 

are the advocates and evangels of human 
liberty. They are fighting for the rights 
of all men,^ the protection of the hearth- 
stones of the homes of all the world. They 
are giving up their lives that women and 
children may be saved from the horrible 
brutality of educated and scientific sav- 
ages. 

Whatever the sacrifice may be, the prize 
is worth the price. We cannot afford to 
see the wheels of progress turned back- 
ward, and the liberties and the hopes of 
men trampled ruthlessly beneath the feet 
of a merciless and conscienceless foe. This 
is humanity's war. Every American who 
loves his native land, his flag, his Bible, 
and his church, his grey-headed father, 
saintly mother, pure sister, sweetheart, 
and little children, has a part and parcel 
in this splendid sacrifice. Every one who 
can carry a gun to the battle front, swing 
a sledge at the forge, hold a plow handle, 
dig a trench, butcher a beef, drive a nail 



62 The World War in Prophecy. 

or push a saw, offer a prayer or shed a 
tear, may bear a part in this noble strug- 
gle of men who love God and the human 
race, to free itself from a cruel and heart- 
less militarism which knows no reason, 
and respects no rights. 

If there ever was a time when all polit- 
ical ambitions and prejudices should be 
forgotten, v/hen class distinction should 
be obliterated, when denominational prej- 
udice and bitterness should sink out of 
sight, when rich and poor, capitalists and 
labor, should all unite in the bond of sacred 
brotherhood, stand up and stand together, 
heart to heart, and shoulder to shoulder, 
for a great good cause, that time is now. 
The spirit that should characterize a na- 
tion is well expressed by Macauley in his 
*'Lays of Ancient Rome:" 

"Then none was for a party: 
Then all was for the State ; 

Then the great man helped the poor. 
And the poor man loved the great." 



The World War in Prophecy. 63 

In spite of the enemies who have striven 
to sow dissension and strife among us, a 
few cowardly and selfish politicians who 
have feared the voting power, disloyal men 
who enjoy the protection of our flag, and 
the benefits of our civilization, and love a 
foreign country ; despite certain small bit- 
ter-hearted newspapers and magazine pub- 
lishers, who hate our President because 
they cannot dictate his appointments and 
policies, our nation has risen nobly to the 
heroic task before her. 

The farmer boy has left his plow in the 
furrow; the university student has laid 
down his scientific apparatus; the young 
banker has quitted his desk; the lawyer 
has left his briefs ; the millionaire has for- 
saken his golf links and polo grounds ; the 
fisherman has thrown down his tackle; 
many an idler has caught the spirit of the 
movement, and hardened hoodlums have 
risen to manhood, and come out of the 
slums to take their places in the ranks in 



64 The World War in Prophecy. 

the glorious army of freedom. Million- 
aires have emptied their coffers, and homes 
of scanty means have brought forth their 
little savings to lay with glad hearts and 
trembling hands, their willing sacrifice 
upon the national altar. 

A whole army of women have given 
themselves nobly to the service of man- 
kind. They are not only trained for 
nurses, but they are ready to take their 
places in the garden, the office, the facto- 
ries, and anywhere, where a tender heart 
and a strong hand is needed. Scores of 
the wealthiest women of this nation have 
forsaken their palaces and their pleasures, 
and have gone into those regions most 
ruined and ransacked by the war, to give 
of their means and to succor the suffering. 

The response of the American people to 
the call of the Red Cross, with millions for 
Y. M. C. A. work, and the supply of the 
government, not only with means to pros- 
ecute the war, but to assist the allied na- 



The World War in Prophecy. 65 

tions, and to reach out a great hand of 
charity to the suffering multitudes, has 
been a marvel and delight, and is worthy 
of a great free people who have imbedded 
deep in their natures the principles of that 
honored American statesman, who, in a 
former crisis of our history, exclaimed, 
"Give me liberty, or give me death !'' 

Out of this sowing of wealth and heroic 
lives, human blood and tears, what shall 
the harvest be! We can but hope and 
pray that the Huns will be overthrown; 
we believe that victory will at last perch 
upon the banners of freedom. That, for 
at least a short period, peace may come 
back to our troubled world; that, out of 
the wreck and ruin of the war, the people 
may erect their homes and gather the 
fragments of broken families about their 
heartstone in prayer. But the German 
Kaiser and his war-mad slaves have in- 
flicted a wound upon the human race which 
can never be healed; have committed a 



66 The World War in Prophecy. 

crime against mankind deep as the pits of 
doom, high as the dome of heaven, broad 
as the utmost confines of earth, and last- 
ing as eternity. 



*'They have healed also the hurt of the 
daughter of my people slightly, saying, 
Peace, peace; when there is no peace.*' 
Jer. 6:14. 

"For when they shall say Peace and 
safety; then sudden destruction cometh 
upon them." 1 Thess. 5:3. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

The Pacifists. 

The pacifist is the man who pleads for 
peace at any price. The burning of cities, 
the murdering of eight hundred thousand 
Armenian Christians, the ravishing of 
untold multitudes of women, the maiming 
and starving of children, does not disturb 
his equanimity. He can stand with an 
idiotic smile upon his countenance, while 
the victims of the Lusitania reach their 
helpless hands in vain for help from the 
ocean, and all Germany laughs at their 
agony. He says, 'Teace, peace," while di- 
plomatic representatives of a foreign en- 
emy sow the seed of disintegration and 
internal strife, apply the torch to our fac- 
tories, and offer Texas, New Mexico and 
Arizona as a tempting bait to a neighbor 
nation to make war on us. 

All Christian men must be opposed to 
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70 The World War in Prophdcy, 

war; and yet, intelligent Christian men 
must, some time, fight for the great under- 
lying principles of righteousness, without 
which, Christian civilization would be im- 
possible. The man who, from the stand- 
point of Christianity, objects to war, must 
have the sympathy and respect of his fel- 
lows, but he must not ignore the fact that 
we have wars thrust upon us, that the sa- 
cred shrines of Christianity are being de^ 
stroyed, and the very foundations upon 
which we build every hope of human hap- 
piness here and hereafter, are being 
broken up, that the Bible itself is being 
attacked, the Deity of Jesus Christ denied, 
and the guns of the Huns trained upon the 
foundations of all religious truth. 

The maudlin, fanatical pacifist reminds 
one of a strapping farmer, sitting upon 
the pasture fence, while a frightened 
woman is chased by a maddened bull, and 
instead of going to her help with a Win- 
chester or pitchfork, calling to her to pac- 



^ 



The World War in Prophecy. 71 

ify the animal by rubbing his nose with a 
bunch of lilac blossoms. He is the kind of 
man that would fall on his knees and beg 
the policeman not shoot the poor mad-dog, 
but teach the little children to tame the 
docile, sweet creature by patting him on 
the head, and feeding him with chicken 
sandwiches. 

These similes are not exaggerated. 
There would be just as much solid and log- 
ical reason in the methods of the pacifists 
with the German war lords, as the pro- 
posed treatment of furious bulls and mad- 
dogs. However tenderhearted and hu- 
mane you may be, you have got for the 
sake of society, to take pitchforks to the 
bulls, and shot-guns to mad-dogs. 

Most of the pacifists of this country who 
claim to be opposed to war, are hypocrites 
and liars. They do not believe in war, 
and in the German method of war. They 
wanted to escape military service in Ger- 
many and enjoy the privileges of this free 



72 The World War in Prophecy, 

and democratic country, and now they 
want Uncle Sam to stand quietly and hold 
up his hands while they hold the U-boat, 
the torch, and the mob of Mexico at his 
head, pick his pockets of his liberties, and 
sell his States to foreign invaders. 

We have no enemies half so dangerous, 
and who hate us with so deep and bitter 
a hatred, as those political demagogues, 
newspaper copperheads, and disguised 
spies, who would rejoice to see our trans- 
ports go down at sea, and our armies cut 
to pieces on the French frontier. They 
are busy seeking to bind the hands of the 
administration at Washington ; to prevent 
our brave men from enlisting to defend 
the honor of the flag. They would sink 
the ships that carry food to the suffering 
women and children in Belgium. They 
would deposit explosives in great passen- 
ger vessels and send them down in mid- 
ocean with all on board, without any com- 
punction of conscience. They endorse and 



The World War in Prophecy. 73 

gloat over the brutality and outrages of the 
German Kaiser. Like the unfortunate Jews 
who cried out on the sad hill of Calvary, 
''His blood be on us and on our children," 
they are willing and glad to share their 
part of responsibility for this horrible 
crime of the ages. 

While the Vv^hole world longs for peace, 
and fights on with a hope that this may, 
at least, be the last war for a generation, 
German militarism is busy learning les- 
sons from the present war, and planning 
preparations for the next. We clip the 
following from the daily press : 

'*An insight into the war-sodden minds 
of Prussian militarists is given by a book 
just published in Germany called 'Deduc- 
tions From the World War,' a copy of 
which was received here today from Ber- 
lin. 

"It is written by Lieut. Gen. Baron Von 
Freytag-Loringhoven, who was quarter- 
master general of the German army 



74 The World War in Prophecy. 

when Gen. Von Falkenayn was chief 
of the German general staff. Gen. 
Von Freytag is now stationed in Berlin as 
deputy chief of the general staff. His 
book breathes blood-and-thunder prepar- 
edness. 

"After arguing that the German army 
must be expanded after the present con- 
flict is over, Von Freytag continues: 

"We shall have to continue to pursue 
this road in the future quite apart from 
the necessary increase in garrison artillery 
and technical troops. Moreover, when 
the number of those who have fought in 
the great war has fallen away, we shall 
have to aim at subjecting at least to a cur- 
sory training the men of military age who 
are at first rejected but who, in the course 
of war, have turned out to be fit for ser- 
vice, so that when war breaks out they 
may form a generous source of reserves. 

"Only so can we arrive at a real people's 



The World War in Prophecy, 75 

army, in which every one has gone through 
the school of the standing army. 

"In the future, as in the past, the Ger- 
man people will have to seek firm cohesion 
in its glorious army and in its be-laurelled 
young fleet. Our business is to maintain 
the fundamental ideas of war as they 
lived in the German army up to 1914, to 
soak them in the experiences of the pres- 
ent war and to make the fullest technical 
use of them. But we must do all this 
without giving an entirely new direction 
to our thinking on strategy and tactics." 

The last chapter of the book is called 
''Still Ready for War," and argues that 
Germany must be ready to plunge into 
fresh conflict after the present whirlwind 
of bloodshed and horror is over. Von Frey- 
tag expresses the opinion that as a result 
of Germany's position in Europe and in 
world politics, "German soldiers must re- 
ject all ideas of pacifism and internation- 
alism." 



76 The World War in Prophecy, 

The book goes on to say, after the war is 
over the sports of the boys of Germany 
must be arranged and utilized so as to put 
into them the spirit and training that will 
fit them for military service. 

William Allen White, a well known and 
perfectly reliable correspondent, now with 
the armies on the front, tells of several in- 
stances where German officers, after being 
captured, and while being treated for their 
wounds, have tried to assassinate the sur- 
geons of the Allies who were ministering 
to them. Their purpose was to thin out 
the doctors so the wounded in the hospitals 
of the Allies would not have proper atten- 
tion. 

It is a well known fact that, for some 
time, the German airships have been seek- 
ing out, and dropping shells upon hospitals, 
murdering the wounded and their nurses, 
trying to so disorganize and break up the 
Red Cross work that the wounded would 
die for lack of attention. 



The World War in Prophecy, 77 

These are the wild human bulls and 
mad-dogs with whom the pacifists would 
make peace, and grant opportunity to 
make larger preparation for world slaugh- 
ter on a more fearful and shocking scale. 
The promoters of peace under present con- 
ditions are the advocates of another, and 
if possible, a more fearful war. There can 
be no hope for any lasting peace until the 
spirit of militarism is entirely broken in 
Germany; and much as this is to be de- 
sired, the sad probabilities are that this 
deeply imbedded faith in war, as a means 
to national greatness, planted so deeply in 
the German mind, cannot be uprooted. 
However this war may end, the spirit of 
militarism will still live in Germany, and 
in the future as in the past, will secretly 
plan the destruction of civil liberties, and 
the conquest of the world. 



"And I will cut off the chariots from 
Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, 
and the battle bow shall be cut off: and 
He shall speak peace unto the heathen: 
and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, 
and from the rivers even to the ends of 
the earth/' Zech. 9:10. 



CHAPTER IX. 
When the War is Over — What? 

World conditions at the present time 
present a sad and mixed problem for our 
contemplation. Out of this maelstrom of 
fire and blood we hope for peace, but those 
of us who read and believe the prophecies 
contained in the Holy Scriptures cannot 
hope for long, protracted peace, until the 
inauguration of a new dispensation. 

There is one thing of which we may be 

perfectly sure : the ravages of war will not 

regenerate the race. Going into this war 

sinners, we shall not come out saints. When 

the last gun has been fired in this cruel 

conflict, the world will still be left with 

many vexing problems, and the human 

heart will remain rebellious and wicked. 

Selfish interests will form its combinations 

of capital, and labor will defiantly demand 

its price. Socialism, much of it illogical 
(79) 



80 The World War in Prophecy. 

and unreasoning, will have made tremen- 
dous strides. The rich will continue to 
lock the precious products of earth in cold 
storage, and the poor will go fainting and 
hungry. Perhaps, not so openly, but in 
secret places, inventive genius will concen- 
trate its stimulated powers for the discov- 
ery of destructive agencies, and behind 
closed doors, cabinets will plan measures 
for defensive and offensive war. 

It is not at all improbable but that the 
United States may come forth from this 
conflict with less of the true democracy, 
and far more of the spirit of militarism 
than she possessed when she armed her- 
self to go forth and fight in order to ''make 
the world safe for democracy." 

You may be sure that for many years 
the politics of this country will be domi- 
nated by the soldiers who fight in this war. 
Those of us who remember the Civil War 
recall the fact that at its close, both North 
and South, the people were represented in 



The World War in Prophecy. 81 

legislative and congressional halls by the 
old soldiers. It was almost a waste of 
time for the man who remained at home 
to become a candidate against a man who 
could wave an empty sleeve, and tell of 
heroic deeds on battlefield. The ex-soldier 
got the vote. In this particular, history 
will repeat itself; and for many decades 
to come the policies of this nation will be 
directed by the brave men who have led 
their charging hosts over the top along the 
Western front in France. 

We have seen in a former chapter, that 
German military leaders are already plan- 
ning for the intensive training of the 
rising generation of German youth for 
military service. The rest of the world 
will argue, whatever the conditions of the 
treatise of peace may be, that if one great 
representative nation prepares itself for 
war, the other nations will be compelled 
to do the same ; and the strong probabili- 
ties are that in spite of the fearful lesson 



82 The World War in Prophecy. 

of waste of property and loss of life in the 
present carnage, that all the great powers 
now at war will, after peace is declared, 
inaugurate a system of universal service; 
and it is quite probable that this great 
democratic country will be dotted over 
with vast army camps, and a heavy burden 
of taxes laid upon the people, to teach the 
millions of youths the use of arms. 

Those statesmen who are telling us that 
this is the world^s last great war, and that 
we shall have universal peace among men, 
are entirely out of harmony with the 
teachings of the prophetical books of the 
Holy Scriptures, the words of Christ, and 
the writings of the apostles. 

We regret to write down here what our 
fellow-men will regard as a pessimistic 
view of the future ; but we believe the Bi- 
ble, and are compelled to be true to the 
great facts plainly foretold in its inspired 
pages. We are hoping for, at least, a 
short period of peace, following the close 



The World War in Prophecy. 83 

of this world war, for a time of great evan- 
gelistic and missionary movement. It is 
to be hoped that the chastened world will 
give the true ministers of grace an oppor- 
tunity for the rapid spread of the Gospel : 
and that during the breathing spell, while 
deceived and selfish world-leaders prepare 
for the last tremendous struggle before the 
coming of Christ and His Kingdom, the 
Church will arouse herself to the long neg- 
lected task of preaching the Gospel in all 
nations, and to every creature. 

If the Kaiser could have realized his 
dreams, if he could have crushed France 
within a few weeks after the opening of 
hostilities, if he could have wheeled upon 
Russia, broken and conquered her, if he 
could then have brought England to her 
knees, thrown his armies into Canada, and 
marched upon the United States, all un- 
prepared to protect themselves, our great 
Eastern cities, with their factories of arms 
and ammunition could have been easily 



84 The World War in Prophecy, 

captured, Mexico would have been aroused 
against us, and Uncle Sam would have had 
to accept the Kaiser's terms of peace. 
With the immense indemnities he would 
have exacted, and the combined fleets of 
the conquered countries under his com- 
mand, the Oriental people would have been 
helpless, and the German Kaiser would 
have easily been a world victor. But he 
is bound to fail; his dream can never be 
realized. History is in the ''toe age" of 
Nebuchadnezzar's great image. The time 
of world empire has passed forever, until 
Christ shall come to reign. True, Satan's 
last effort in this direction will meet a 
large degree of success during that short 
period of domination of the Man of Sin, 
through whom, for a little while, he will 
more nearly approximate his plan of world 
dominion, than he has been able to do 
through the agency of Alexander, Caesar, 
Napoleon, or the bloody Kaiser. 

The hand of prophecy on the dial plate 



The World War in Prophecy, 85 

of the ages points to perilous times. We 
are approaching the close of the dispensa- 
tion, and it will be marked by the outpour- 
ing of the vials of wrath upon a wicked 
and rebellious race which has trampled 
upon the commandments of God, plainly 
written in His Word, and rejected His 
mercies graciously offered upon the Cross. 
This is God's world ; He created it. He 
owns it. He intends to rule it. He has 
absolute right on this globe, and He does 
not intend that it shall constantly be the 
arena of strife; that selfishness and sin 
shall butcher and starve and destroy the 
creatures made in His image, and re- 
deemed by the sacrifice of His Son. He 
intends to inaugurate a new dispensation ; 
to set up His Kingdom among men ; to put 
the world under the control of the Prince 
of Peace ; to cast out the devil who shall de- 
ceive the nations no more, and happy men, 
in brotherly love, will no longer sweat in 
the furnaces of fire, manufacturing the 



86 The World War in Prophecy. 

implements of war, but with songs of glad- 
ness they will beat their swords into plow- 
shares, and bend their bayonets into prun- 
inghooks. 



*'And in the days of these kings shall 
the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which 
shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom 
shall not be left to other people, but it shall 
break in pieces and consume all these king- 
doms, and it shall stand forever." Dan. 
2:44. 

"And Jerusalem shall be trodden down 
of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gen- 
tiles be fulfilled. And there shall be signs 
in the sun, and in the moon, and in the 
stars; and upon the earth distress of 
nations, with perplexity; the sea and the 
waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them 
for fear, and for looking after those things 
which are coming upon the earth : for the 
powers of heaven shall be shaken. And 
then shall they see the Son of Man coming 
in a cloud with power and great glory. 
And when these things begin to come to 
pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; 
for your redemption draweth nigh." 
Luke 21 :24, 25, 26, 27, 28. 



CHAPTER X. 

$^ The Coming Kingdom. 

When Christ was in the world He taught 
all His disciples to pray, "Thy Kingdom 
come ; Thy will be done on earth as it is 
in heaven." This united prayer of all the 
members of His true Church through the 
centuries, unconsciously of course, by 
many of His people, has been, and is, for 
the Coming of Christ, the casting out of 
Satan, and the setting up of the Kingdom 
of God on earth, in which men shall live 
and walk in beautiful harmony with His 

will. 

A golden age in which the world shall be 
free from war, from the liquor traffic, 
from white slavery, from pestilence and 
famine; when the seasons shall be regu- 
lated into perfect harmony, the earth shall 
bring forth in abundance, and the desert 

shall blossom like the rose. 
(89) 



90 The World War in Prophecy, 

It is a common remark of those who do 
not understand the Divine program, that 
the Millennium, because of the conditions 
of war and strife, seems to be a long way 
off. Such people have the false and un- 
scriptural notion that the Millennium will 
be gradually ushered in by the wisdom of 
wise and generous world rulers; by 
treaties of cabinets, the acts of congress ; 
by social service for the uplift of society ; 
by the building of schoolhouses, parks, and 
playgrounds; by scientific sewerage sys- 
tem, and the introduction of the laws of 
hygiene into the lives of the people; by 
the passage of resolutions of religious con- 
ferences and convocations; by the sat- 
urating of the entire social life of the 
world with the spirit of the Gospel. 

This may be a fascinating dream, and 
pleasing program, gotten up by men, but 
it is entirely out of harmony with the 
Scriptures. No nation has ever attained 
a more advanced position in education, and 



The World War in Prophecy. 91 

the development of all the branches of 
modern science than Germany, but the 
"kultur" of her mind has not sanctified her 
heart. Pride and ambition go hand in 
hand with human progress in the arts and 
sciences. Men are puffed up with their 
attainments of Vv^ealth and what they call 
knowledge, and drift away from the teach- 
ings and spirit of the meek and lowly 
Christ. 

The wisdom of this world will never in- 
augurate a universal reign of peace and 
happiness. The Apostle Paul tells us that, 
''In the last days perilious times shall 
come. For men shall be lovers of their 
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blas- 
phemers, disobedient to parents, unthank- 
ful, unholy, without natural aifection, 
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, 
fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of 
pleasure more than lovers of God ; having 
a form of godliness but denying the power 



92 The World War in Prophecy, 

thereof." These are to be the conditions 
of the closing days of this dispensation. 
Every word of this prophecy of the in- 
spired Apostle is fulfilled before our eyes 
in a marked and striking degree. 

The teaching of Paul is in perfect har- 
mony, and corroborated by our Lord Jesus 
Christ's description of last-day conditions. 
Speaking of the end of the age, He says, 
*'And upon the earth distress of nations, 
with perplexity; the sea and the waves 
roaring; men's hearts failing them for 
fear, and looking after those things which 
are coming on the earth." These teach- 
ings describe with absolute accuracy, pres- 
ent-day conditions. Jesus does not tell us 
that such conditions indicate that the Mil- 
lennium is a long way off, but he says, 
"When you see these things come to 
pass, then look up and lift up your 
heads; for your redemption draweth 
nigh." It is in the very midst of these 
things, while the earth is full of confusion 



The World War in Prophecy. 93 

and war, distress and perplexity, that 
Christ says, "Then shall they see the Son 
of Man coming in a cloud with power and 
great glory." 

As might be supposed, we have in the 
Scriptures a remarkable combination of 
prophecies concentrated about the tremen- 
dous events connected with the great 
change that shall come to our planet, with 
the close of a dispensation, the overthrow 
and casting out of the devil, the breaking 
up of the kingdoms of this world, and the 
inauguration of the Kingdom of God on 
the earth. The breaking up of world king- 
doms has begun in a remarkable degree. 
The king of Belgium has been driven from 
his throne. Peter of Servia, has been 
driven from his country. The Czar of 
Russia is a prisoner in Siberia. King AI- 
fonzo is trembling on the throne in Spain. 
The spirit of social democracy threatens 
the existence of the Hohenzolleren family 
in Germany. The King of Greece has fled 



94 The World War in Prophecy. 

from his capital. Confusion reigns 
throughout the earth. The stone cut out 
without hands is smiting the image of 
world power upon its feet, and it will break 
and grind to powder rapidly during the 
coming year. 

The ''times of the Gentiles" are almost 
ended. There is reason to believe that the 
British army will still drive "the unspeak- 
able Turk" from Palestine, and the He- 
brew people will come flocking back to 
Zion like doves to their windows. Events 
are moving at the double quick. Time no 
longer drags ; it gallops. Those who watch 
prophecies and the daily papers, will be 
impressed with the remarkable fulfillment 
of the predictions of God's inspired seers. 

It is high time that the Church, the 
Bride of the Lamb, made herself ready to 
be caught away from the "great tribula- 
tion" which shall break directly with a 
storm equal in its fury to Noah's flood, and 
the merciless horrors with which the Ro- 



The World War in Prophecy, 95 

man legions besieged and burned the Holy 
City. Let those who love the Lord see to 
it that their garments are made white 
through the power of His cleansing blood, 
their vessels are full of oil, and their 
lamps kept trimmed and burning. 



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